Lily Tomlin Quotes

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Lily Tomlin

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 1, 1939

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

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We're all in this alone.

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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

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I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me.

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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

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If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.

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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

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If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

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I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

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I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

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I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.

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It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.

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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

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I especially love 'Web Therapy' and I did 'Eastbound and Down' too. I had a lot of fun doing that.

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